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Year’s top owner-operator named, N.C., Virginia and Missouri in tolling program, FMCSA wants EOBR survey excluded and more industry news items are featured.
April 1, 2012
A trucker for 49 years, Larry Severson accepts his award at the Truckload Carriers Association annual meeting in Orlando, Fla. Severson will be featured in the May Overdrive.
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Federal, state governments review owner-operator status
Federal and state entities increasingly are questioning if owner-operators should be regarded as employees for tax purposes.
March 2, 2012
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Fleet Focus
Truckers and carriers receive recognition and awards.
March 1, 2012
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Survey: Carriers hit by health care changes
Recent health care law changes will impact more than 80 percent of carriers that responded to a recent survey by Transport Capital Partners.
January 24, 2012
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Setting the pace with owner-operator Henry Albert
Sunday’s post on Overdrive 2007 Trucker of the Year Henry Albert’s blog caught my eye with what it says about thinking outside the box to ensure success in running an independent business. In the post, Albert visits an old haunt of his, Charlotte’s Metrolina speedway (the old grandstands here pictured by Albert), shuttered long since […]
November 8, 2011
Metrolina Speedway2
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Appeals court overturns LA port’s employee rule
Court reversed the ruling that allowed the port’s requirement that only employee drivers regularly could work the port.
September 27, 2011
Channel 19
A novel ‘hot load’ strategy
Next time somebody tells you they’ve got a “hot load” and you best to do everything and more in your power to get it there on-time, you may do well to point the speaker in the direction of a new story in the National Law Journal. In it, plaintiff’s attorney Kent Emison goes to great […]
September 4, 2011
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New state laws affect owner-operator status
Trucking supported changes affecting owner-operators and workers’ compensation are subject of laws in Tennessee, Pennsylvania and Maine.
July 21, 2011
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Prime Inc. increases pay per mile to independent contractors
Independent contractors in reefer and flatbed segments will have minimum pay set at $1.02 per mile starting June 1, said John Hancock, Prime Inc.’s recruiting director. The increase is available to all new and existing operators. The Springfield, Mo.-based carrier pays its contractors 72 percent of revenue. “With our freight network, we’re confident of our […]
May 31, 2011
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Class-action suit ruling favors FedEx Ground
The federal judge ruled mostly in favor of the company in its stand that its drivers are contractors.
December 19, 2010
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Carrier describes driver screening tool usage
The PSP report can help a carrier better identify an otherwise great driver’s problem areas and to focus initial training in particular areas.
August 27, 2010
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Misclassification stakes high
A long erosion of the traditional owner-operator model has taken place.
August 27, 2010
James C. Sullivan (Photo Todd Dills)
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